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by Ryan Watkins
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January 23, 2012 15:11 |
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A group of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are lending their voices to the “It Gets Better” project, a viral movement meant to reach out to bullied queer youth.
“It's hard being different when you're young and even when you're old. But once you realize that you have friends that are going to accept you for who you are, and the sooner the accept yourself for who you are, the sooner you'll realize that life gets better,” one female soldier says in the video.
A year ago, these soldiers could have been discharged under the military's “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy. The discriminatory law was officially overturned on Sept. 20, 2011. Some 13,000 soldiers were discharged due to their sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation before the law was repealed.
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by Ryan Watkins
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January 18, 2012 12:16 |
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Campaign for Southern Equality made national news yesterday when activists from the organization attempted to secure marriage licenses in Greenville, S.C., as part of the organization's We Do Campaign. Three couples from the group, Michel McVicker and Alyssa Weaver, Pastor Ra’Shawn Barlow-Flournoy and Pastor Kelvin Barlow-Flournoy, and April Whittington and Tanika Jones, requested marriage licenses yesterday at the County Probate Court in Greenville, S.C. All three couples were denied because they did not meet the legal requirements for marriage in the state. South Carolina has a constitutional amendment banning same-sex unions.
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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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January 12, 2012 18:03 |
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Is it something about the particular women’s bars that have opened here, or is there something inherently different about the way lesbians approach nightlife? Either way, Atlanta is back to having just one lesbian bar, despite about two dozen bars targeted to gay men.
This week, Bellissima, the lesbian bar located at Amsterdam Walk in Midtown, announced its closure after a contract to sell the bar encountered problems.
That means there is just one specifically lesbian bar left in the city: My Sister’s Room, which reopened last weekend with renovations and new owners, and debuts a new sports bar menu this weekend.
This is down from a heyday of a whopping three lesbian bars in the Atlanta area in 2010, when Paris Decatur closed.
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by Ryan Watkins
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January 12, 2012 13:02 |
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 A group calling themselves Honest Girl Scouts is leading a national boycott of Girl Scouts of the USA and their annual cookie sale over what is being called a “change back to simply building girls of good character.”
From the group's website:
We are a fellowship of current and former Girl Scouts, Girl Scout Leaders, Girl Scout Co-Leaders, Girl Scout Volunteers, Girl Scout Parents and Girl Scout Lifetime Members across the United States concerned with the alarming choices GSUSA has been making (using the money we have paid and raised for them); we are advocating for a change back to simply building girls of good character.
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by Ryan Watkins
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January 10, 2012 13:50 |
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It all seems to have started with a video entitled “Shit Girls Say,” posted late last year on the video-sharing site YouTube, that quickly went viral. Some nine million views later, parodies have flooded the internetz, including a half-dozen or so LGBT-themed responses.
The first LGBT-themed video we found, “Shit Girls Say to Gay Guys,” was uploaded yesterday and has somewhere in the neighborhood of a half million views. That was followed by a lesbian and tran-themed parody.
I wasn't able to find a “Shit Dudes Say to Lesbians” video, but I have the feeling it wouldn't be nearly as funny as these below. How many different ways can they say “Can I watch?”
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